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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in blended learning technology are empowering students in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that e-learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Myanmar (Burma) to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing need for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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